Welcome to the quiet town, Bohicket’s Land, You will find this town quite bland. The town is old and still, besides the even older cotton mill. The cotton mill has stirred, because the racial curse words. The segregation in this town is quite bad, different colored men can’t even wear the same plaid. A colored man’s glare, Is rebutted by a white man’s swear. The people of this town just don’t get along, It seems like no one belongs. Racism aside, the town was hit, with the economic tar pit. All businesses are going down, stores are saying “we are closed” with a frown. Everyone is leaving, most of them grieving. Is there any way to turn this around, before the economy gets run into the ground? Will the people here be saved, or will the economy have the people enslaved? _ Explaining the Poem -Bohicket is a native american tribe name -cotton and farming was big in the south -lines 7 and 8 are ment to display how there were different stores for colored and white people -line 9 nd 10 explains how clored men where treated poorly by white people -the economic tar pit is meant to symbolize how the Depression draged many buisnesses and people under -people are leaving to try and find a new start or just to look for work
You will find this town quite bland.
The town is old and still,
besides the even older cotton mill.
The cotton mill has stirred,
because the racial curse words.
The segregation in this town is quite bad,
different colored men can’t even wear the same plaid.
A colored man’s glare,
Is rebutted by a white man’s swear.
The people of this town just don’t get along,
It seems like no one belongs.
Racism aside, the town was hit,
with the economic tar pit.
All businesses are going down,
stores are saying “we are closed” with a frown.
Everyone is leaving,
most of them grieving.
Is there any way to turn this around,
before the economy gets run into the ground?
Will the people here be saved,
or will the economy have the people enslaved?
_
Explaining the Poem
-Bohicket is a native american tribe name
-cotton and farming was big in the south
-lines 7 and 8 are ment to display how there were different stores for colored and white people
-line 9 nd 10 explains how clored men where treated poorly by white people
-the economic tar pit is meant to symbolize how the Depression draged many buisnesses and people under
-people are leaving to try and find a new start or just to look for work